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ing until his sight began to fail him, when he asked a late pupil 
of his to look into his eye, who discovered an incipient one in. 
I, therefore, now contend, that the plaintiff did not positively 
prove that a cataract did exist at the time of sale ; the witnesses 
merely giving, as their opinions, that it was necessary, before a 
cataract forms, there should be repeated attacks of inflammation ; 
but which I think I have sufficiently proved may appear without 
any inflammation whatever, as most probably this did, and also 
the others to which I have already referred; in addition to 
which, it is now clear enough that cataracts may, occasionally, 
be absorbed. I think it behoved them to have proved positively 
that it existed at the time of sale, and not to have presumed it. 
As the whole of this paper is in favour of the evidence given 
by Mr. Clay on the trial, I think it is incumbent on him to 
favour the public with the cases on which his opinion w r as 
founded, as it is a material point, especially as I am informed 
that such opinion did not originate with himself, or from his own 
experience, but from information derived from a neighbouring 
veterinarian. 
W. A. Cartwright. 
Whitchurch, Dec. 13, 1833. 
THE VETERINARIAN\ JANUARY 1 , 1834 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— Cicero. 
When entering on a new era in our connexion with our 
' readers—a connexion which has been the source of much pleasure 
and improvement to both parties—it is necessary that w T e should 
be anxious to remove every cause of misunderstanding or coolness 
or distrust between us ; therefore the present article will be de¬ 
voted to the consideration of one or two hints which have been 
suggested in the most friendly manner by some of our correspond¬ 
ents, and which do imply some slight degree of censure. 
“ Studens,” in the number for November last, prefers the 
most serious complaint. He says, referring to the Veterinary 
College at St. Pancras, “ I think that you are somewhat quiet 
about this said College of ours of late ; some of us think too 
quiet/’ We wish that our friend, for so we esteem him to be, 
had stated the specific points in which he imagines that we have 
“ been too quiet,” for we could then have met the question more 
fully and fairly ; but as it is, we can only plead generally “not 
guilty.” We have been “quiet of late”—we have been purposely 
